if you compare the original texas chain saw massacre, the omen, and the exorcist, to their remake, most people would say that the original is far better. i dont know if they computerize so many things on the special effects but it is somehow unrealistic..
Have you seen the movie "Pulse"?..if you havent, just save your time and money. I think the movie is a joke..it was too predicatble and it was more of a comedy than a horror...
today i think they have ran out of ideas, like the recent movie "snakes on plane", would you waste your money to watch that movie, i doubt it..
2006-08-31 17:10:52 · 15 answers · asked by Sad Monkey 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Hollywood is just another big business. They have analyzed the formula and there is a certain amount of time and money invested in making a movie that yields a certain profit. It's like businesses outsourcing work - who cares if it screws thousands as long as they make an extra percent on the bottom line.
In the past they used to make movies based on ideas and good scripts. Now it's just about making a certain percent of profit, and has nothing to do with the story or plot. I think all the morons who paid to watch crappy Friday the 13th movies and hundreds of Halloween sequels that showed Hollywood they could make a profit showing pure crap.
2006-08-31 17:30:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I think that the older movies are better because they didnt have all the GROSS FACTOR that they new ones do. Society has become so insensitive to horror movies that the old Night of the Living Dead style movies jsut doesnt cut it for them any more. They want the new running zombies in the remake of the Dawn of the Dead, which dont get me wrong I LOVE that movie! but it doesnt add to the imagination! Movies AND songs used to let u USE ur imagination but now just THROWS it out there. WHo needs an imagination when its all there on the screen? I think its been proven that u dont need GOOD actors when u have GOOD or GREAT special effects!
2006-08-31 18:10:30 · answer #2 · answered by goldenkhalil 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because those were the good ones. Recent ones are just the movies that rip those off.
I didn't even bother watching the Omen remake (or any other, for that matter), because the whole remake thing is getting into sacred territory as far as classic movies go.
Also, since when does the Exorcist have a remake? As far as I'm concerned, that's the one movie that nobody needs to even CONSIDER remaking.
2006-08-31 17:16:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The old movies were better because they had better actors and they did the stunts, no computerized effects. The stories were also new and not just another redo of the same old same old. The only good horror flicks today are not even really horror, like Saw, it was more a suspense thriller than horror.
2006-08-31 17:21:25 · answer #4 · answered by Tessa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The old horror movies are better I agree. I don't know why, they had a different style back then that made them seem more realistic. As far as Pulse goes, I saw it after watching the original. The remake did suck you're right. if you haven't seen the original check it out it's much better.
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2006-08-31 17:17:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think more accurately American horror movies are horrible, while European and Asian are still great, like The Eye and Shallow Grave. Now, most US horror films, especially those in Hollywood, have flat acting, predictable plots, horrid soundtracks, and an amount of gore that is comic rather than frightening. I watch movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer and end up laughing for most of it. If they had intelligent writers and actors, maybe they might save themselves.
2006-08-31 17:23:43 · answer #6 · answered by theonlymonsterdog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's because they have taken out the suspense. Your own imagination was so much a part of those old movies.Now there is really no imagination. Just how much bloodier, or how many more taboos can be broken, using children , portraying priests ministers,churches,those things we hold (or used to ) sacred. You can only rip and tear a body to shreds so many ways then it gets old. I'll tell you,I have been camping before, way out in the deep woods and nothing in the movies scared me as much as I scared the crap out of myself! Over nothing, of course. Oh, and the other reason the old films were so good and frightening was they were written by great authors! Thom
2006-08-31 17:39:02 · answer #7 · answered by miamithom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DEFINITELY the old ones were better.
You certainly don't need to be specific and show all the blood, guts, gore, mayhem, violence, etc.
Alfred Hitchcock made several great pictures without them.
Whatever happened to drama and suspense?
For me, true horror is anything with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, or Vincent Price.
The last good horror movie I saw of recent vintage was the first "Jaws" movie.
2006-08-31 17:17:01 · answer #8 · answered by leehoustonjr@prodigy.net 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're right. They've just ran out of ideas; that's why they're doing so many remakes and sometimes it is the special effects because if they're not done right...you know it's fake, and it's just like, "Why should I be afraid of something I know isn't real?"
2006-08-31 17:16:12 · answer #9 · answered by Aim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think when they rely on computerized effects they just get lazy, and let the effects do all the work at the expense of story and dialog. i love the old horror movies
2006-08-31 18:10:56 · answer #10 · answered by kitkat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋